Stop the presses.  We have a last-minute entry for cutest thing of 2012.  I see kittens with disco balls.

That's a live cam, so the party will probably stop soon, but still, KITTEHS.

If anyone wants a colorful little pre-populated one-chunk world, you can haz.  This isn't built for gigantic, generations-long legacy games; it's better as a refresher between big games.  I have an odd issue with computers in this world turning unselectable after a few minutes of play, which is likely an undiscovered tightness of pants, but please let me know if you see it, too.

Portals to underground rabbitary facilities require the rugs by Jynx.  Using the NRAAs Traffic mod with delta set to -5 or so is recommended to get rid of random traffic (click the rug in the building nearest the flagpole for settings).  The world uses all EPs, all SPs except the Katy Perry one, and no store items. 



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In CAW, look under the Terrain menu tab and choose Export Height Map.  You can edit the height map in the graphics editor and then import it back into the game, preferably into a fresh save in case the new map knocks around items you have already placed.  Bridges may need to be clicked to reconnect them to roads after a new map is imported.

If you're not experienced with a graphics editor, it's worth learning.  Lifehacker has a great Night School series on Photoshop.  For the time being, if you want to post your exported height map, I'll give it a whirl and see if my suggestion actually works.

Hand-holding may not be encouraged here, but it's nice to see signs of life in this thread.  It's disappointing that MATY hasn't shown much interest in CAW as we have a shortage of creatively nefarious worlds.  Not that it matters much for the time being, because Skyrim.

You might have better luck exporting the terrain to a graphics editor and making changes there.  If you copy a slice of the circle that works, you can rotate/paste until the whole circle is uniform and then import the terrain (making a new save first).  Gradients made in Photoshop don't transfer as smooth terrain, but copying a part that you have already smoothed should work better.

Sending your sims to someone else's game would be fun if it were for assassinations rather than gigs.

Same here.  I have a pop cap of 500, but had just entered a fresh test 'hood with about 20 houses.  All have beds; none have cribs.  The game accepts the command (no error) without actually doing anything.

Rabbithole pileups can usually be fixed by making sure the ground under the rabbithole and near the doors is flat and leaving more space for routing between the rabbithole doors and the world at large.  I've had sims pile up five squares wide and two squares deep at the edge of a lot, apparently in great fear of taking that single step forward into freedom.

The butler issue does seem like a different problem, unless a routing failure is causing the game to keep trying with new butlers.  A routing issue might explain why interacting with one of them cleared out a space.  If the butler convention reconvenes, moving the lot and nearby items in Edit Town so routing is recalculated might do the trick.

Did you follow the LAA instructions for the CAW executable?  I have a feeling you may have thought setting priority would do it; not so much.

Also, try leaving EIG open and in focus when saving, if you aren't already.  Alt-tabbing to a browser or such inevitably makes my saves fail.  

I vaguely recall removing the leaf pile due to a conflict with another mod or hacked item.  ACR, maybe? 

Check the MTS help section for DEP and LAA information, and make sure DEP settings are applied to both the current game executable and CAW.  Saving the CAW file under another name every so often also seems to help things run smoothly.

I get EIG save errors if I minimize the window for even a moment during a save; redoing it with the window in focus generally works.  I've also noticed that wiping out the saves folder and making a fresh one often does the trick when "save as" doesn't.  I'm not going to claim these aren't mere superstitions, but they're simple enough to try and have coincided with successful saves most of the time.

I'd consider downloading the first one if it came with the train coming out one ear and into the other.

It would be better to look at your setup as a whole than to worry about one game.  Here's a good article to get you started.

Yes?  Gaps?  Yes?  Gaps?  Yes, gaps!  Thank you for enjoying them!  Goodbye!

What have you already done to try to resolve the problem?  You've probably already taken these steps, but maybe something will spark a solution.

The long loading time suggests it may be a CC issue, not a CAW issue.  Is there any CC in this world that hasn't been checked by running Process Monitor during startup?  I've yet to have an problem with loading times that wasn't a bad package spinning its wheels.  Also, if you had CC in the CAW framework, make sure those items are available to the game when it loads the completed world.

To check for a routing issue, I'd look for holes in the unroutable areas (huge cause of lag), view and check routing around the cliffs and trees, and mark the whole forest off-limits (for testing, if not permanently).  Make sure trees are clustered, and that the narrow region between road and unroutable cliff is well defined with no overlap.  If you route-painted the cliffs after adding the roads, it might be worth moving the road segments to make sure no routing paint snuck under there, and make sure the bridges are clear.  Be sure to rebuild routing right before exporting the world.

For what it's worth, I've added, deleted and moved lots in both CAW and EIG with no issues.  The city I'm working on now is huge and offers plenty of opportunity for problems to surface.  I export the world a few times along the way and play it, making and changing lots in a game save and then inserting them into the next CAW-EIG session.  Adding lots in the actual game might be an issue post-export, but pre-export, rebuilding routing in CAW should do the trick.

By the way, are you making a pre-populated world, or starting empty?  It could be relevant to the lag issues, but mainly I'm curious.

Check out this thread at MTS.  You may be able to use the existing river pieces in the same fashion, if you place one as described in post 26.

Whoops, yes, I was remembering Lerf's comment about reading a book when it loads and attributing it to you.  Sorry about that.

Try disabling your computer's screen saver.  If it's triggered while your system is loading the game, that could be the issue.

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It seems as though most of the negatives of using BodyShop for this purpose are easily resolved by loading the program with only the new stuff in the Downloads folder.  Loading time will be reduced, there won't be as much to sort through, and there is no chance of deleting something already in use in a neighborhood. 

Is there anything blocking the area surrounding the car?  This garage had plenty of room to work on the car, but would throw an error on the final step (leaving my sim with an interesting stuck effect that made me wonder when he'd taken up smoking).  I moved the car to a wide open space and it could be completed.

I'm not sure there is a mod that does this, but you might be thinking of MaryLou's mini lots that were edited by aelflaed to have the sun at the front.  Check her profile here and look for the Sunnyside lots - there are several flavors, including a few I just noticed - yay!  There will probably be something helpful in the descriptions or comments.

Wasn't there a batch processing script added to SimPE to update objects to Pets, or something along those lines?  Maybe you could work out something similar to batch process your Sims through SimPE - read the age in days and assign heights accordingly.